Gambling News by House of Odds

If you had to pick one of the seven deadly sins that best applies to an athlete in a contract holdout, the obvious choice would be greed.

The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals dealt what is likely to be the final blow to Delaware's plan for a state-sponsored gambling lottery that would have allowed residents to make bets on individual games in several sports. On Tuesday the full court denied the state's request to rehear a panel decision reached last month that struck down the plan as a violation of a 1992 law that bans sports .